Drafting up a traditional Chilkat robe based on an old one. This one I call the "Lovebirds Diving Whale."
I’m working on a couple of Chilkat robe designs. One I just completed as part of my “robe-within-a-robe” series for a collaborative project with another artist; the other robe design is this one above. This design is a “diving whale” with an Eagle and a Raven, the Lovebirds. This is a draft of the robe I am preparing to weave, yet I am having second thoughts about re-doing the design so that it goes along with my “robe within a robe” series. My Chilkat robe-within-a-robe series are designs where there is a smaller Chilkat robe within the main image of the Chilkat robe. I have almost completed my first Chilkat robe within this series; it is called “Jennie Weaves An Apprentice.” The deadline for the completion of this robe is mid-July – however, I have been predicting the completion of this “Jennie Weaves” robe for the past two years; so what makes me (or others for that matter) believe me when I say it’s gonna be done by mid-July, huh?